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Tenor

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Tenor [spelt 'tenour' in s. 88 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (see MAKER)], sense contained; general course or drift. Tenor implies that a correct copy is set out, but the word effect alone implies that the substance only is set out.

Where the appointment of an executor is not express, but only constructive, upon construction of the will or codicil, he is usually called 'executor according to the tenor'; see Williams on Executors; In the Goods of Lush, (1887) 13 PD 20.

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